On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Leonid Podolny wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I think the time has come for me to start exploring the Linux kernel in > > some depth. I have installed kvm, qemu and git. It seems to all be > > present and working. I have reviewed the kvm, qemu and git sites about > > how to start using those programs??? > > > > William, hi, > > I'm not sure what you mean by "start exploring the Linux kernel". I > assume that by that you mean "start developing in kernel > environment" and not "compiling Linux kernel" (the latter doesn't > require exploring as such). You already have kernel binary installed > -- /boot/vmlinuz symlink points to it. As to sources, you should > download the source RPM (src.rpm) and install it, just like regular > rpm. Then, do rpmbuild -bp /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel.spec and it > will put a vanilla kernel in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.23/ > vanilla and Fedora kernel in > /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.23/linux-2.6.23.x86_64/ i would instead recommend grabbing a copy of the kernel source tree and putting it in your home directory somewhere, so you can do everything up to (but not including) installing a new kernel as a regular user. rday ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
